Name: Strange Hells
SKU: 69254237
Price: 429.00 TWD
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Author: Francis Stowe
ISBN: 9798160344218

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Strange Hells

Francis Stowe (Author) · Independently published · Physical Book

New Book Imported to Taiwan

Delivery: 18 Nov - 26 Nov

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Synopsis "Strange Hells"

Strange Hells is a three-act war drama (its title drawn from the Ivor Gurney line quoted at the top) that frames the horrors of the First World War through a Remembrance Day frame story. In 1925, aging veterans Major David Smith and Colonel Urquhart-Stewart sit in a gentlemen's club before a cenotaph ceremony. Smith, haunted by the war, drifts into a long memory/dream of 1917 — the bulk of the play is this flashback, bookended by brief returns to the club (Scene Seven) as the frame closes. Themes: class conflict and the British officer/enlisted divide, the psychological wounds of war (shell shock, guilt, haunting), faith versus skepticism, and the tension between duty/sacrifice and the human cost of "glory."